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Monitoring Performance of Drift in Flutter App with Sentry

Masatoshi Tsushima — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:00:42 +0000

Drift

sqflite is introduced in the official cookbook to persist data.　But Drift (a.k.a moor) is another strong option to use SQLite in Flutter app.

Sentry

Sentry is well known as error tracking tool, but also you can use to monitor performance. Competitors are Datadog/New Relic/Firebase Crashlytics.

Drift & Sentry

Unfortunately, however, there is no library available for linking Sentry with Drift. I made it with reference to sentry_sqflite.

pub.dev: https://pub.dev/packages/drift_sentry
GitHub: https://github.com/utisam/drift_sentry

Usage

LazyDatabase _openConnection() {
  return LazyDatabase(() async {
    final dbFolder = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();
    final file = File(p.join(dbFolder.path, 'db.sqlite'));
    // Use .addSentry() to wrap QueryExecutor
    return NativeDatabase.createInBackground(file).addSentry();
  });
}

Finally, it is the measurement result: